Consciousness Recovered (Advances in Consciousness Research) - Softcover

Mandler, George

9789027251602: Consciousness Recovered (Advances in Consciousness Research)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9027251606 ISBN 13: 9789027251602

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002

This integrated approach to the psychology of consciousness arises out of Mandler’s 1975 paper that was seminal in starting the current flood of interest in consciousness. The book starts with this paper, followed by a novel psychological/evolutionary theoretical discussion of consciousness, and then a historically oriented presentation of relevant functions of consciousness, from memory to attention to emotion, drawing in part on Mandler’s publications between 1975 and 2000.
The manuscript is controversial; it is outspoken and often judgmental. The book does not address speculations about the neurophysiological/brain bases of consciousness, arguing that these are premature, and it is highly critical of philosophical speculations, often ungrounded in any empirical observations. In short it is a psychological approach ― pure and simple.

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